Nicolas "YOLA" Seck

    CHARACTER ANIMATOR *

    ___professional experiences:

    .Jan 07-Now: Framestore CFC (London) freelance:
    animations on the movie "Underdog"
    animations on the movie "Narnia 2"

    .Dec 05-Jan 07: Cinesite (London) freelance:
    animations on the movie "Underdog"
    blendshapes modeling for the VFX of "Underdog"
    animations on the 2nd commercial "Dr Comfy"

    .Sep 05-Oct 05: Berliner Film Companie (Berlin) freelance:
    animations on the feature film "Happily N'ever After"

    .Jun 05- Aug 05: the Picture Production Company (London) freelance:
    animations on the pilot of the TV series "Pinky & Perky"

    .Nov 04-Apr 05: Moving Picture Company (London) freelance:
    animations on the movie " Batman Begins"
    animations on the movie "Corpse Bride"

    .Oct 03-Sep 04: Vanguard Animation (London) freelance:
    animations on the feature movie "Valiant"

    .Apr 02-Sep 03: Xilam productions (Paris) permanent:
    animations on the cartoons "Rapido" and "Thorgal"
    animations on the "Kaena the prophecy" french TV spot: Kaena's Interview

    .Aug 97-Mar 02: Chaman productions (Paris) permanent:
    CG animations on the video game "Gaïna"
    rigging and skinning on the feature movie "Kaena the prophecy"
    CG animations on the feature movie "Kaena the prophecy"

    .Feb -May 97: Buf companie (Paris) freelance:
    CG artist on the TV-spots "Lucky Strike", "Gordon", "Coca-Cola"
    CG artist on the SFX for the movie "Batman & Robin"

    .Jul-Sep 96: Ubisoft (Paris) training period:
    Modelling, texturing, animation & SFX for the video games "Tim7"& "Valdo"

    .Jul-Aug 95: Psygnosis France (Paris) training period:
    Modelling, texturing & lighting on background of the video game "the City of lost children"

    .92-93: Illustrator for the newspaper " la Voix du Nord " Dunkerque edition

    ___schools & training:

    .99-01: drama acting class (Paris)

    .94-96: SupInfoCom (Valenciennes - France) 1st & 2nd year of the CG higher cycle

    .94: Institut Supérieur des Arts et Métiers du Hainaut - Hainaut higher institute of Arts and Trades (Mons - Belgium) evening course - comic book

    .93-94: Ecole de Recherche Graphique - Graphic school of Research (Bruxelles - Belgium) 1st year - comic book / Story Board


    ___softwares:

    Maya, 3dsMax, Photoshop, Premiere


    ___personal production & awards:

    .Nov 05: animations of the CG short movie "Artboyz" with imaginary-toyz for celebrating artoyz.com

    . student movie : "Des chiens dans mon bocal" (dogs in my fishball) - Supinfocom - 96
    ( Imagina 97 selection ¨best student movie¨)

    . award Ricard-INA imagina 95 - still image

    . Jun 05: painting exhibition "From son to father" - Maison Du Tourisme (Leffrinckoucke)

    . Dec 02: painting exhibition "From son to father" for saintdesprit.net at Alternation (Paris)

    ."Cocktail": comic book - Bande-à-part edition - 94

    . illustrations, painting & comic books